The oxen are in the barn and the ferris wheel is resting high up in the blue sky. The games of chance stand in a row, the tilt-a-whirl remains tilted and a giant bounce house tiger sits at the ready...

According to Josh Biren, general manager of Back Door Donuts, to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest apple fritter two things needed to happen. “It needs to be big enough...

Philip Weinstein is a professor emeritus of Swarthmore College and also one of the country’s preeminent Faulkner scholars, along with his twin brother that is. But that is not important right...

When filmmaker Richard Gentile screened his first feature-length documentary at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, he stopped to take a...

After nine years of providing fair winds for the nonprofit Sail Martha’s Vineyard, executive director Brock Callen has announced his retirement, the organization said. Mr. Callen began his...

Ben Moore, one of the first architects to set up shop on the Vineyard and a champion of affordable housing, died on May 10 at his home in West Tisbury. He was 82. A lifelong summer resident of the...

It begins with T-ball, a group of kids barely taller than a bat, their hats covering not just their heads but often most of their faces, their shirts dangling well below the knees. They scramble as...

For the past two years Barbara Ronchetti has featured an alpaca on her Agricultural Fair poster entry. This stands to reason as she is the owner of Island Alpaca on the Vineyard, and at the present...

With two main Vineyard ferries laid up in Fairhaven, the Steamship Authority said it would continue to use a privately-contracted high-speed passenger service to the Island at least through midweek...

With two ferries sidelined with mechanical problems, the Steamship Authority will continue to operate through the weekend with service from freight boats and the passenger-only SeaStreak ferry. The...